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-rw-r--r--net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
index b5f1221f48d4..b96ac918e0ba 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
@@ -61,6 +61,14 @@
* function will also cleanup rejected sockets, those that reach the connected
* state but leave it before they have been accepted.
*
+ * - Lock ordering for pending or accept queue sockets is:
+ *
+ * lock_sock(listener);
+ * lock_sock_nested(pending, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+ *
+ * Using explicit nested locking keeps lockdep happy since normally only one
+ * lock of a given class may be taken at a time.
+ *
* - Sockets created by user action will be cleaned up when the user process
* calls close(2), causing our release implementation to be called. Our release
* implementation will perform some cleanup then drop the last reference so our
@@ -443,7 +451,7 @@ void vsock_pending_work(struct work_struct *work)
cleanup = true;
lock_sock(listener);
- lock_sock(sk);
+ lock_sock_nested(sk, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
if (vsock_is_pending(sk)) {
vsock_remove_pending(listener, sk);
@@ -1292,7 +1300,7 @@ static int vsock_accept(struct socket *sock, struct socket *newsock, int flags)
if (connected) {
listener->sk_ack_backlog--;
- lock_sock(connected);
+ lock_sock_nested(connected, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
vconnected = vsock_sk(connected);
/* If the listener socket has received an error, then we should